I believe more in jewelry and bodily adornments than any kind of money. I'm on the team that wants to make the money economy superfluous, so I'm not particularly interested in 'better products' as much as I'm interested in other forms of commitments, compensations, bonds etc.
Sorry, money is here to stay for another 30000 years. Your weirdo commie system doesn’t work in a group of bigger than 50 people.
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"Another" 30.000 years? The ones you think of only existed 5.000 years, according to archaeological record. I'm not against any form of money, just the exact forms. Non-mathematical forms of currencies are great ritual mediums that can tie 1000s of people together.
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We are tying 8,000,000,000 people together with borderless currency to maximize benefits of trade.
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The only thing you're tying together are strangers to each other. Which is the magic of exact money. People are sick of living in such a world.
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No, you need a sound monetary unit for capital accumulation, resource allocation, price discovery and Shannon’s informational surprise. The world you describe is a weird hippie commune where no great progress or inventions will occur.
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Capital accumulation is surely dependent on an exact monetary unit. Resource allocation not so. The world I describe has existed for millennia, and still exist parallel to that world of co-existing strangers that the rule of debt money tends to create.
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Industrial psychologists (which are on your team, not mine) have for decades described how money rewards is a guaranteed way to hinder technological progress. Creativity, invention and imagination stems from non-monetary reward economies, e.g. recognition, pride, common values.
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